Let Us Draw Nigh! by Andrew Murray

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26 LET US DRA W NIGH
never do—made redemption of transgressions,
and put away sin for ever. The new and living
way, through the rent veil, that is, His flesh,
has reference to His death, regarded as that of
our Leader and Forerunner,
who opened up a
path to God, in which He first walked Himself,
and then draws us to follow Him. The death
of Jesus was not only the dedication or inaugura
tion of the new sanctuary and of
the new covenant,
but also of the new way into the holy
presence and fellowship of God. Whoever in
faith accepts of the blood He shed as His boldness
of entrance, must accept, too, of the way
He opened up as that in which he walks.
And what was that way ? The way through
the veil, that is, His flesh. The veil is the
flesh. The veil that separated man from God
was the flesh, human nature under the power of
sin.
Christ came in the likeness of sinful flesh,
and dwelt with us here outside the veil. The
Word was made flesh. He also Himself in like
manner partook offlesh and Wood. In the days
of His flesh, He was tempted like as we are
He offered
prayer and supplication with strong
crying and tears. He learned obedience even
to the death. Our will is our life. He gave
up His own will to the death to seek God's will
alone. Through the rent veil of His flesh, His